ApaulD<p>Thank you Richard Barnes for this, great work</p><p><a href="https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/the-rba-should-not-be-giving-support-to-the-centre-for-independent-studies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/t</span><span class="invisible">he-rba-should-not-be-giving-support-to-the-centre-for-independent-studies/</span></a></p><p>“the CIS does not meet the criterion of independence from, and non-alignment with, political parties or other institutions, which is expected of policy institutes of which the Reserve Bank Australia has corporate membership.</p><p>It might be thought that a $20,000 per annum association is trivial. But, as in many areas of politics and public policy, such arrangements often act as tacit signals of shared interests and reciprocal influence. The RBA’s association with the CIS is effectively an endorsement of it.“</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AtlasNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtlasNetwork</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Advance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Advance</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIS</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a></p>